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Rossini, Gioachino. Carte-de-visite photograph inscribed and signed ("G. Rossini"), in French, (4.12 x 2.12 in.; 105 x 54 mm.), Paris, 1861, to Ferdinand Falk; permanently affixed to card stock and matting whose overall dimensions are approximately 8.75 in. x 6.75 in. A fine later image of Rossini inscribed and signed. The composer writes in full: Gift to my friend Ferdinand Falk. G. Rossini, Paris 1861. After years of various physical and mental illnesses, Rossini slowly returned to music, composing obscure little works intended for private performance in his later years. These included his Péchés de vieillesse, which are grouped into 14 volumes, mostly for solo piano, occasionally for voice and various chamber ensembles. Often whimsical, these pieces display Rossini's natural ease of composition and gift for melody, showing obvious influences of Beethoven and Chopin, with many flashes of the composer's long buried desire for serious, academic composition. They also underpin the fact that Rossini himself was an outstanding pianist whose playing attracted high praise from people such as Franz Liszt, Sigismond Thalberg, and Camille Saint-Saëns.